Epistle to the Romans Themes
Community
Communities are never nice, neat packages of getting along, are they? And that's been the case for millennia. In Romans, Paul makes it pretty clear that the community of Jews in his time found them...
Humility
God loves us. That's what Romans says, at least. So we should be shouting that from the mountaintops, right? Well, not exactly. Paul's really big on everyone acting very humble. Don't brag about th...
Love
According to Paul's letter to the Romans, God's love is the bomb diggity. It's all-encompassing, never-ending, and enduring. In fact, he loves us so much that he'd let his son die for us. Yeah, he'...
Sin
In Romans, Paul tells us that sin means moving away from God and doing things that aren't part of his plan for your life. Before Jesus, this was a big problem. Now, because Jesus came to earth to d...
Transformation
Paul is really big on change. According to the letter-writing man himself, Christians become totally new people when they put their faith in Jesus. They die to their old lives. They die to sin. The...